Previous work suggests that conduct disorders may be specifically associated with abnormal
social challenge cortisol response.
Not exact matches
Children exposed to institutional rearing exhibited reduced SNS activation to
social stressors, blunted vagal withdrawal to a nonsocial stressor, and blunted
cortisol reactivity, indicating a consistent pattern of reduced engagement of stress response systems to environmental
challenges following early psychosocial deprivation.
Antisocial behaviour: does a preventative intervention reduce
cortisol levels in response to a
social challenge?
Effects of a Psychosocial Family - Based Preventive Intervention on
Cortisol Response to a
Social Challenge in Preschoolers at High Risk for Antisocial Behavior.
Another limitation is that we did not collect a baseline, «unstressed» measure of
cortisol before the
social challenge.
Relative to controls, children in the intervention condition had increased
cortisol levels in anticipation of the peer
social challenge.
Main Outcome Measures Salivary
cortisol levels before and after a
social challenge (entry into an unfamiliar peer group).
Results Relative to controls, children in the intervention condition had increased
cortisol levels in anticipation of the peer
social challenge.
Salivary
cortisol levels before and after a
social challenge (entry into an unfamiliar peer group).
Objective To examine the effects of experimental manipulations of
social experience on
cortisol response to a
social challenge in preschoolers at risk for antisocial behavior.
To examine the effects of experimental manipulations of
social experience on
cortisol response to a
social challenge in preschoolers at risk for antisocial behavior.
A final limitation involves differences in the collection of
cortisol samples at home and for the
social challenge.
This finding suggests that intervention - induced changes in
cortisol levels in anticipation of the
social challenge and changes in observed behavior during the
challenge (eg, withdrawn behavior or socially competent behavior) are independent.
This study does not allow us to make conclusions about the clinical implications of the increased
cortisol response in anticipation of
social challenge.
Context Salivary
cortisol levels during
social challenge relate to adaptive functioning in children and adults.
Approximately 1 week after the
social challenge, parents collected salivary
cortisol samples 4 times (7 AM, 12 PM, 4 PMand 8PM) at home on a single day.
For example, the degree to which
social challenges reliably elicit similar
cortisol responses over time and the degree to which relatively subtle procedural factors, such as changes in instructions, might influence responses remain unclear.
Socially
challenging and emotionally evocative contexts such as
social rejection and feelings of embarrassment and loneliness elicit
cortisol release (Cacioppo et al., 2000; Gunnar et al., 2003; Gruenewald et al., 2004; Dickerson et al., 2008).